The Army of the Duchy of Courland (Kurländische Armee) total: apr. 1000 At the moment is missing completely in game. Please add it as part of the PLC forces perhaps. The Courland's units could use Saxon unit pics. OOB:6 mounted & 2 foot companies:- 1 company of Leibgarde- 2 companies of Garde-Dragoner-Regiment - 2 mounted companies of Lehnsreiter regiment - 1 company of Jäger zu Pferde- 2 foot companies (in garrisons of the fortresses of Mitau and Bauske).For the military commander Ferdinand Kettlerwould be ideal. His portrait if you'll need it.

Courland's navy (Kurländische Flotte) in 1700:Total: 15Frigates-class: 5 or 6Smaller vessels: 9-10In contrast to quite rich information on the 17th century's ships and famous big fleet of Duke Jacob (around 100 armed vessels), the sources about Courland's fleet of early 18th century is quite scarce for a good reason as the navy was in terrible state. Nevertheless I managed to collect quite a good and probably complete information on the navy of dukes Friedrich Casimir and Friedrich Wilhelm.

The detailed vessels list (all teh names are in original Baltic Low German):

1. Die Carpee (Carp) – built in 1680 in Libau, was very active as trade and convoy ship at the Baltics during 1696-1699.2. St. Casimir - 200 lasts (about 1000 tonnes) double-decked frigate, built in Libau in 1678. Trade and convoy ship.3. Den Engel (Angel) - since 1680, trade ship.4. Garneele (Shrimp) - trade ship.5. Hase (Hare) - since 1680s, active as trade vessel in 1680s-1690s.6. Heringsfaenger (Herring Fisherman) - since second half of 1685, active as trade vessel in 1680s-1690s.7. Die Durchlauchte Hertzogin von Churlandt (Serene Duchess of Courland) - double-decked frigate, 130 foot long (*probably German or Scandinavian foot, about 0,3 m.). Built in 1694, in 1698 was docked in Windau.8. St. Jgnatius - since 1680, active as convoy ship.9. Insull Tobago (Island Tobago) - convoy/trade ship active since 1689.10. St. Sophia - double-decked frigate, built in 1678 in Libau.11. Stadt Windau (City of Windau) - since 1688, convoy/trade ship.12. Das Wappen von Tobago (The Shield of Tobago) - since 1687, probably a very good armed ship (frigate?) as in 1687 under command of governor Altenbockum it sailed across the ocean to West Indies in one of many unsuccessful Courlandian attempts to regain control over Tobago. It survived a very serious storm, was repaired at the Faroes and returned to Windau.13. Der Hirschbock (Elk) - since 1691, used as trade ship. Was temporary arrested by the Swedes.14. Stadt von Aventure (City of Adventure) - yacht/corvette/sloop, built in 1690 for the cost of 6.000 florins. Active since 1691.15. Prins Friedrich Wilhelm (Prince Friedrich Wilhelm) - 41 meter long (the parameters: 132x32'6x14 Swedish foots), the biggest of the Courland's vessels, built somewhere in 1690s. It was quite nicely armed considering very poor state of the Courland's navy after Duke Jacob's death: it has 50 major cannons (22 x 8-pounders, 22 x 6-pounders and 6 x 4-pounders cannons), plus 20 smaller x 0,5-pounder guns (so, somewhere 70 with them). Usually such vessels were used as the convoys but during war time could be mobilised and armed for military actions. In 1702 it was captured by the Swedes, but in 1712 it was sunk (to straighten the pier) due to the fact that Sweden simply did not have any resources to repair and rearm it for any active military use.Source: Майлит, Ю., Богатырев, И. Судостроение в Курляндии в 1638-1718 гг. (Shipbuilding in Courland, 1638-1718) // Судостроение, №10, 1989, pp. 52-55

I would say that only guards regiments should be regular infrantry, while rest of the regiments should have statistics of musceters.

as for Piechotą Wegierska - it should be treated as light infrantry.

Definitly there should be added locked cossack units.

One general remark - i think it should be a possibility to increase and improve polish-lituanian infrantry. There were plans to do it every time parlament was meeting.

Parliaments were supossoed to be called every 2 years, yet there was a posibility to procced with the changes wit local parlimants or call special parliament.

My proposal is that Anti-Swedish Coalition player should be given a chance to introduce reform of the army as an option. Every year starting from 1701.

It should cost a lot of money, EP and War Supplies - yet it should benefict with the increase of the recruitment pool and rather fast improvemnt of the units ( mussteiers chainging in to modern infrantry on a faste paste, dragoons improving to qualitu units, hussars getting cuirassiers stastics)

Swedish player should have an option to try to block it - by securing number of polish cities and paying quite a lot of money and EP ( that action would reprsent bribing number of mebers of parliament)

such a reform was planned yet never really introduced. Yet as history shown during a polish-saxon war of Kofederacja Tarnogrodzka PLC admistration could be succeful in creating military force ( it included forming parliamnts infrantry based on some swedish prisoners....)

the other thing is that PLC army should be be locked until attacked or unlocked by parlaiment decision - intrduced as an option as well. Genneraly PLC elite seen the war as a private adventure of a king and get in tp the war slowly.

Yet all those changes would make Anti-Swedish Coation even weaker....So to balance things i would say that Ruassians should be given much stronger army - meaning much higher number of supply trains, most of the musceters being Strelsty quality units. and chenge to moder infrantry should not be conected with creating of sank petersburg but rather with Peters Rule event.And russians should be able to recrut regular infrantry from like 1703/1704.

Herr Doctor wrote:Some fixes to Polish-Lithuanian OOB, hope you would have some time to address them:

The overall army forces number of army without poorly equipped and anarchic mass levy was 25445 men in 1700.

The Army of the Duchy of Courland (Kurländische Armee) total: apr. 1000 At the moment is missing completely in game. Please add it as part of the PLC forces perhaps. The Courland's units could use Saxon unit pics. OOB:6 mounted & 2 foot companies:- 1 company of Leibgarde- 2 companies of Garde-Dragoner-Regiment - 2 mounted companies of Lehnsreiter regiment - 1 company of Jäger zu Pferde- 2 foot companies (in garrisons of the fortresses of Mitau and Bauske).

Courland's navy (Kurländische Flotte) in 1700:Total: 15Frigates-class: 5 or 6Smaller vessels: 9-10In contrast to quite rich information on the 17th century's ships and famous big fleet of Duke Jacob (around 100 armed vessels), the sources about Courland's fleet of early 18th century is quite scarce for a good reason as the navy was in terrible state. Nevertheless I managed to collect quite a good and probably complete information on the navy of dukes Friedrich Casimir and Friedrich Wilhelm.

The detailed vessels list (all teh names are in original Baltic Low German):[spoiler]1. Die Carpee (Carp) – built in 1680 in Libau, was very active as trade and convoy ship at the Baltics during 1696-1699.2. St. Casimir - 200 lasts (about 1000 tonnes) double-decked frigate, built in Libau in 1678. Trade and convoy ship.3. Den Engel (Angel) - since 1680, trade ship.4. Garneele (Shrimp) - trade ship.5. Hase (Hare) - since 1680s, active as trade vessel in 1680s-1690s.6. Heringsfaenger (Herring Fisherman) - since second half of 1685, active as trade vessel in 1680s-1690s.7. Die Durchlauchte Hertzogin von Churlandt (Serene Duchess of Courland) - double-decked frigate, 130 foot long (*probably German or Scandinavian foot, about 0,3 m.). Built in 1694, in 1698 was docked in Windau.8. St. Jgnatius - since 1680, active as convoy ship.9. Insull Tobago (Island Tobago) - convoy/trade ship active since 1689.10. St. Sophia - double-decked frigate, built in 1678 in Libau.11. Stadt Windau (City of Windau) - since 1688, convoy/trade ship.12. Das Wappen von Tobago (The Shield of Tobago) - since 1687, probably a very good armed ship (frigate?) as in 1687 under command of governor Altenbockum it sailed across the ocean to West Indies in one of many unsuccessful Courlandian attempts to regain control over Tobago. It survived a very serious storm, was repaired at the Faroes and returned to Windau.13. Der Hirschbock (Elk) - since 1691, used as trade ship. Was temporary arrested by the Swedes.14. Stadt von Aventure (City of Adventure) - yacht/corvette/sloop, built in 1690 for the cost of 6.000 florins. Active since 1691.15. Prins Friedrich Wilhelm (Prince Friedrich Wilhelm) - 41 meter long (the parameters: 132x32'6x14 Swedish foots), the biggest of the Courland's vessels, built somewhere in 1690s. It was quite nicely armed considering very poor state of the Courland's navy after Duke Jacob's death: it has 50 major cannons (22 x 8-pounders, 22 x 6-pounders and 6 x 4-pounders cannons), plus 20 smaller x 0,5-pounder guns (so, somewhere 70 with them). Usually such vessels were used as the convoys but during war time could be mobilised and armed for military actions. In 1702 it was captured by the Swedes, but in 1712 it was sunk (to straighten the pier) due to the fact that Sweden simply did not have any resources to repair and rearm it for any active military use.Source: Майлит, Ю., Богатырев, И. Судостроение в Курляндии в 1638-1718 гг. (Shipbuilding in Courland, 1638-1718) // Судостроение, №10, 1989, pp. 52-55

I would say that only guards regiments should be regular infrantry, while rest of the regiments should have statistics of musceters.

as for Piechotą Wegierska - it should be treated as light infrantry.

Definitly there should be added locked cossack units.

Good remarks. Thanks. Making guard and "leib" (King's and Queen's ones) regiments as modern regular infantry is totally justified, in comparison to somewhat weaker other infantry regiments. Especially prior the 1717 reform.

marek1978 wrote:One general remark - i think it should be a possibility to increase and improve polish-lituanian infrantry. There were plans to do it every time parlament was meeting.

Parliaments were supossoed to be called every 2 years, yet there was a posibility to procced with the changes wit local parlimants or call special parliament.

My proposal is that Anti-Swedish Coalition player should be given a chance to introduce reform of the army as an option. Every year starting from 1701.

It should cost a lot of money, EP and War Supplies - yet it should benefict with the increase of the recruitment pool and rather fast improvemnt of the units ( mussteiers chainging in to modern infrantry on a faste paste, dragoons improving to qualitu units, hussars getting cuirassiers stastics)

Swedish player should have an option to try to block it - by securing number of polish cities and paying quite a lot of money and EP ( that action would reprsent bribing number of mebers of parliament)

such a reform was planned yet never really introduced. Yet as history shown during a polish-saxon war of Kofederacja Tarnogrodzka PLC admistration could be succeful in creating military force ( it included forming parliamnts infrantry based on some swedish prisoners....)

I like the idea, but the main problems for those plans of August II were local opposition backed by the Russians. rather then the Swedes alone. The question is how to represent it in game terms, considering you don't play PLC+Saxony alone, but the whole alliance leaded by Peter the Great who was against any major reforms like this in Poland-Lithuania. Won't be a bit too unrealistic if we don't take in account various factions interests? Could it lead to another civil conflict potentially if pushed by the player? Russian intervention? The break of alliance with Russia? Would it make PLC even more unstable?

marek1978 wrote:the other thing is that PLC army should be be locked until attacked or unlocked by parlaiment decision - intrduced as an option as well. Genneraly PLC elite seen the war as a private adventure of a king and get in tp the war slowly.

THIS indeed. I totally agree. This would be way more historical than PLC forces used in early stages of the war. Perhaps the player could have some space for political manoeuvrers here and some minor chance to push PLC into the conflict earlier as both August II and Peter worked hard for this. But at last until 1704 it shouldn't be granted that the PLC forces are activated at all.

marek1978 wrote:Yet all those changes would make Anti-Swedish Coation even weaker....So to balance things i would say that Ruassians should be given much stronger army - meaning much higher number of supply trains, most of the musceters being Strelsty quality units. and chenge to moder infrantry should not be conected with creating of sank petersburg but rather with Peters Rule event.And russians should be able to recrut regular infrantry from like 1703/1704.

Great idea and simple to represent in game. Realistically I think it should be as historically: giving anti-Swedish coalition (Russia) lots of resources to build up new modern army based on Russian units.

Suggestion: Replace the faction name "Kingdom of Austria" with "Habsburg Monarchy" (which is the term modern historians use to describe it) or maybe "House of Austria" (to refer to the dynasty rather than the name of a territory).

For those interested: A kingdom of Austria never existed. An "Empire of Austria" existed after 1804. Before that, there is only the Habsburg Monarchy: an agglomeration of titles/territories ruled in personal union by the Habsburg rulers. Austria (to be more precise: the Archduchy of Austria) was but one of those territories, along with the kingdom of Bohemia, the kingdom (one could argue: Empire) of Hungary, the duchies of Styria and Corinthia (part of modern day Austria) and many many more. All these territories had their own laws and (noble) parliaments.

PS. I will keep collecting my region-suggestions here (editing this post continously). Once I consider them finished, I will enter them in the excel sheet. I list them by their correct areas (historical territories):

At the bohemian/saxon border (Pirna region), the river Elbe [czech Labe] is wrongly labeled Jizera.

The name of Corinthia (Kärnten) is misspelled ('Kärntern') and not placed correctly. It would be better to add the name of the Duchy of Styria (Steiermark) instead as it is bigger. Styria's capital is Graz.

The Archbishopric of "Salzburg" should be shifted westwards - right now it is written in the center of Upper Austria. You might also get rid of it alltogether.

Ideally, "Österreich" should be written on a line in between Linz and Wien.

The river running from Vienna northwards towards Brünn is labeled "Russbach". It is actually the river "March" [czech: Morava], from which Mähren/Moravia has its name (labeled correctly further to the north). I don't know of any Russbach - the name "-bach" suggests it might be a tiny rivulet.

I do not know much about engines, but you seem to building new one.Please consider keeping commanders-leaders plates-badges on the right side (like ACW1, RUS) because if map is on the left side it will always collide with generals.

When I play Northern War Coalition side - it does not interfere that much. And with Swedish - it is nearly not interfering.But when I tried lately Bourbons grand campaign - it hurts much.

see this: arrow points to better place for map layers (one of not used crown symbols)

I've been playing GNW solo with the newest patch, and wrote down many observations. Some of these I've already reported, but I'll repeat them with the hope that they'll be fixed/included

-The scenario still ends in January 1716, which seems completely arbitrary. The war lasted until September 1721.-I'd really like to see more objectives (the ones that affect NM and are listed in F11(?) . Currently Sweden has none in Saxony, only a few in the PLC and Russia. Helsingfors should be changed to Åbo for both sides. Helsingfors was a really small town (village) at the time, and Åbo was the main city in Finland together with Viipuri (Vyborg). Why not also have a few objectives in Swedish Germany and one in Holstein? Further, I wonder if the AI would get an incentive to advance to Neva if the future province of St.Petersburg was added as an objective?-I still think that the Patkul event is completely OP, especially since the Altranstädt event was improved. Now Sweden gets a massive NM bonus from those two. Furthermore, historically the execution was met with dismay or even outrage internationally, as Patkul was a diplomat. Maybe Sweden should get some negative effects from the event as well?-Many Swedish regular regiments start the game seriously understrength, which is just plain wrong. The Swedish allotment system meant that the trained manpower already existed, it was just a matter of mobilizing. Most of the units start locked, doesn't this simulate the mobilization properly?-The English and Dutch blockade fleets get spawned already in February, which is both ahistorical and bad for gameplay. They suffer for many months in the wintery Baltic, losing strength and cohesion. I would suggest spawning them in May so that they'll be able to blockade the Danish fleet. Further, the Dutch fleet can be seen by the ASC, but it isn't controlled by Sweden. Is it mistakenly set as neutral?-In February 1700 all of a sudden the Danish stack "Norge Bergen" teleported all the way to Arkhangelsk! Maybe bad weather caused this, but shouldn't they stay within Norway?-The Dutch land stack spawned in Swedish Bremen has no general, leading to massive CP penalties.-Most Polish forces get unlocked in March 1700, even though historically it took them a long tme to start committing to the war. There have been multiple posts about this previously. Would be great if the game portrayed the PLC's reluctance to participate in the war which they regarded as August's private affair.-The "Path into Silesia" option for the ASC seems unneeded at the moment, because for some reason the regions it's supposed to open are already accessible for the coalition. In fact, all of HRE seems to be open for them.-The Treaty of Travendal takes away all resources and EP from the ASC, is this WAD? Further, provinces in mainland Sweden taken by Denmark remain controlled by the coalition. Also the event locks Karl and his stack for 2 turns, shouldn't 1 account for the free transportation? Time is of the essence if one wants to even try to replicate the historical movements. After Denmark leaves the war their garrison units are still available for recruitment. Finally, after the treaty the province Husum in Holstein becomes locked.-The "Raise More Taxes" option should definitely mention the cost of -1 NM. Many other tooltips also lack correct information.-Holstein's Friedrich only has 6 CP, meaning that he cannot command his own forces efficiently, which seems illogical. Raise his rank or add a trait that gives CP?-"Peasant Uprising in Russia" is bugged. First time clicking on the line in the message log took me to Vilnius, and the next time it happened I was taken to Swedish Ingria. Shouldn't it only target Russian provinces?-The "WSU to Money" description text in the message log is missing.-Long after the Travendal Treaty had been fired (Sep 1701) the ASC got heavy warship replacements from Copenhagen.-The combined income of Saxony, the PLC and Russia is hundreds less than Sweden's. At the time Sweden was quite efficiently administered (which I would imagine that Russia and the PLC were not), but it was also quite small and sparsely populated. Shouldn't the coalition's (even without Denmark) income be at least equal to Sweden, maybe even more? And please don't take this as a suggestion to lower Sweden's income -The "garrison surrenders peacefully" event claims that it gives +300 conscripts as the troops are allowed to leave (I would assume to the surrendering side), but I have a strong feeling that this doesn't work at the moment. Haven't seen any increase, and the tooltip in the manpower resource doesn't display it.-Why do the siege cards require the target to be a city? Shouldn't it be enough that there's a fort in the target province?-The ASC can use requisition and draft cards in Austrian territory, at least in Lausitz and Neumark.-Currently Sweden can only recruit supply trains from Sweden and Finland. I suggest adding at least the Baltic possessions to the list, as they were an integral part of the realm.-I was repeatedly unable to order a stack to march from Priozersk to neighbouring (hostile) St.Petersburg. The game always calculated the path through Taipale, regardless of the weather. A single cavalry regiment was able to go directly. Is there something wrong with the map?-Kexholm currently only has a fort, it should be a small town as well.-The recruitable Russian cossacks only show with "all units", not with cavalry in the recruitment screen.-The "Peter rules" event costs 300 EP, but immediately gives 200 EP, which IIRC is unmentioned by the description. And it definitely doesn't mention the +5 NM. The event gives +10 to loyalty in "Russia", why does this currently include also Swedish Ingria and especially Sweden's Baltic provinces?-Could the upper side of the atlas be made transparent (like in TEAW), so that one would be able to see the resources when buying replacements? I'm playing on a laptop with 1366 x 768 resolution, and it's a little challenging to make buys without seeing your resources.-When the "Call for Cossack Help" event unlocks the message log mistakenly claims that the event has been activated.

First, my sympathies to the AGEOD team re: health issues- I wish all concerned a speedy recovery!

Second, I was just curious about which overseas regions in the Americas, Africa, and Asia will unlock as the game progresses? Work & RL commitments have been heavy the last 6 month, so I'm still in the earlier stages of the Spanish Succession Grand Campaign.

If none of them unlock, perhaps this could be something for an eventual patch, mod, or update? It would be marvelous if we could simulate e.g. Queen Anne's war, Wager's action in the Caribbean, the Cassard Expedition, or Woods Rogers' capture of the Manila Galleons in the Pacific...